Collection 3: Imagine the Angels of Bread

As you read Martin Espada's "Imagine the Angels of Bread," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 12's Collection 3: On the Vietnam War, 1967, The Crisis, Civil Disobedience, The Clan of One-Breasted Women, A Modest Proposal, Imagine the Angels of Bread
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  1. evict
    expel from one's property or force to move out
  2. levitate
    be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity
  3. destination
    the place designated as the end, as of a race or journey
  4. executioner
    an official who inflicts capital punishment
  5. bedlam
    a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  6. pilgrimage
    a journey to a sacred place
  7. extinct
    no longer in existence
  8. embedded
    enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass
  9. manacle
    shackle that can be locked around the wrist
  10. desecrate
    remove the sacredness from a person or an object
Created on Thu Jul 10 13:01:23 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 10 13:30:45 EDT 2014)

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